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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A medium for feeding data into a computer, essentially a card punched with holes or notches to represent letters and numbers or with a pattern of holes to represent related data.
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- noun A card that can have
holes ornotches cut in it, especially one forstoring data , that can besorted according tocombinations of holes present or absent. - noun computing Such a card, the size of a
US dollar bill , having 80columns of 12rows used in earlymainframe computers . - noun A card given to a
customer and punched with a hole at each purchase, allowing areward to be claimed when fully punched.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes
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